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they didn't used to. >> right. >> they didn't used to even go to school. now we are including in test scores around the world and academic performance scores around the world the expansion teams, the chinese public school system that didn't used to exist and doing well. think about harvard college. okay? still worldwide the most desired place for students to go. >> no doubt. >> if you are the best math students in india and china, where do you want to go to college? mit, harvard. if you go to harvard, guess what you find. a population that is two thirds delivered to it from american public schools. american public schools still deliver at the top end the best students in the world. >> very good. lawrence, as we close this segment out -- >> he's going to stay with us. >> i know. i want to put a neat little period on this. hold on. hold on one second. >> the hair. >> if i compliment your hair -- >> yes. >> -- will you apologize for misstating my position on unions. >> let me hear the compliment. >> striking. it reminds me of a line from "thunder road" -- >>
they didn't used to. >> right. >> they didn't used to even go to school. now we are including in test scores around the world and academic performance scores around the world the expansion teams, the chinese public school system that didn't used to exist and doing well. think about harvard college. okay? still worldwide the most desired place for students to go. >> no doubt. >> if you are the best math students in india and china, where do you want to go to college? mit,...
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we used to rank at the top. we are now 21st in science, 25th in math. >> that interview part of a weeklong nbc news event "education nation" an in-depth look at state of our children's schools. joining me now is political analyst richard wolffe, also the author of "renegade, the making of a president." how much faith does the white house have that they can get young people to the polls? >> reporter: well, what they want to do is obviously re-create the coalition that took the president over the top in 2008 and those are the people who traditionally don't vote in midterms. they feel they have something to talk about with them, whether it's about education in general or specifics about the health care bill. one of the first provisions to kick in young students in wisconsin and elsewhere can stay on family health care policy right now. so that is a change which dauz peel to young voters but it's tough getting people out in the midterms. >> to your point of getting them to the midterms, take a look at this poll we'v
we used to rank at the top. we are now 21st in science, 25th in math. >> that interview part of a weeklong nbc news event "education nation" an in-depth look at state of our children's schools. joining me now is political analyst richard wolffe, also the author of "renegade, the making of a president." how much faith does the white house have that they can get young people to the polls? >> reporter: well, what they want to do is obviously re-create the coalition...
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this money that you are getting from the federal government, explain to us how you are going to use it, how much of it is going to go directly to schools and what is it used for that parents will see pretty quickly? >> good. we are going to use it for really three main areas. first of all, professional development and mace basically all of that money into schools and fix failing schools and third of all to work on the stem discipline. science, technology, engineering math. but i hope that most of the money ends up really in the classroom. it is not something to be wasted on administrative efforts. >> governor, let me ask you. one thing that people have been talking about is teachers' unions. i wonder, just to put it to you bluntly, are teachers' unions an obstacle? >> in delaware they were a partner. i don't think we would have got here without them. part of the advantage is this application we put together not just done for race to the top. it was part of a package started many, many months before race to the top came to the fore. we had teachers at the table, including leadership of
this money that you are getting from the federal government, explain to us how you are going to use it, how much of it is going to go directly to schools and what is it used for that parents will see pretty quickly? >> good. we are going to use it for really three main areas. first of all, professional development and mace basically all of that money into schools and fix failing schools and third of all to work on the stem discipline. science, technology, engineering math. but i hope that...
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good to have you with us. tell us about the school itself and the goals of it and why you wanted to be a part of this. >> yeah, well, there were six of us who started the blue school, and three of us were founders of blue man group here in new york, and then our partners, and what we wanted to do was start a school that filled in the gaps of what -- the parts of our education we thought were missing. >> right. >> we had public education, we had private education. so we wanted to focus on creativity, sewing creativity into subject matter, having social and emotional learning, being on an equal weight of any academic subject and inquiry-based learning, and we wanted to talk to the children, the teachers, and the parents as a triad and build the school as a community. >> let's talk about the kids, though, because you went after the youth, the youngest ones. >> that's right. >> talking about 4, 5, 6-year-olds. why did you think it was early to target so young? >> it's very important in our view to star with this k
good to have you with us. tell us about the school itself and the goals of it and why you wanted to be a part of this. >> yeah, well, there were six of us who started the blue school, and three of us were founders of blue man group here in new york, and then our partners, and what we wanted to do was start a school that filled in the gaps of what -- the parts of our education we thought were missing. >> right. >> we had public education, we had private education. so we wanted...
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give us that tap. the company often says, well, we would like to help, but we don't know how to do that. so this is a bill that would require any communications provider to have the ability to give that access to law enforcement. now, it's one thing to just listen in. it's another thing to decode communications that are often decrypted. so the companies also have to figure out how to decode the messages so the fbi can monitor them when they have a judge's order allowing them to do it. >> they may concern some in terms of privacy. i want to go to an fbi official and what he said to "the new york times". he said we're talking about lawfully authorized intercepts here. we're not talking expanding authority. we're talking about preserving our ability to execute our existing authority in order to protect the public safety and national security. but in order to accomplish this, when we're thinking of this issue, that goal here, don't you have to change the fundamental structures of the way the internet is wo
give us that tap. the company often says, well, we would like to help, but we don't know how to do that. so this is a bill that would require any communications provider to have the ability to give that access to law enforcement. now, it's one thing to just listen in. it's another thing to decode communications that are often decrypted. so the companies also have to figure out how to decode the messages so the fbi can monitor them when they have a judge's order allowing them to do it. >>...
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and what can each one of us do to help? our discussion with around secretary of education, arne duncan, and leading reformer and chancellor of washington, d.c. schools, michelle rhee, randi weingarten, president of the federation of teachers. and robert bobb, emergency financial manager of detroit public schools. >>> but first, to politics and the fight for congress. >>> but first, to politics and the fight for congress. will the house, in this divided campaign season, fall to the gop? if so, what will republicans do in power? this week, republican leaders in the house unveiled their pledge to america, campaign manifesto that's the 2010 version of the gop's contract with america from 1994. the highlights -- extend the bush tax cuts, cut spending, and repeal health care reform. >> our pledge to america is that the republicans stand ready to get it done and beginning today. >> but the question is, are these new ideas or more of the same? here to debate that question among others, one of the architects of the republican pledge
and what can each one of us do to help? our discussion with around secretary of education, arne duncan, and leading reformer and chancellor of washington, d.c. schools, michelle rhee, randi weingarten, president of the federation of teachers. and robert bobb, emergency financial manager of detroit public schools. >>> but first, to politics and the fight for congress. >>> but first, to politics and the fight for congress. will the house, in this divided campaign season, fall to...
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as you see on this map here, that is just south of us here in manhatt manhattan. guys, great to see you. >> great to be here. >> full disclosure, murray is a very old friend of mine. nate is a good friend of mine as well. only a good friend would get up at this hour in the rain. murray, let's start with the idea you had, god, almost a decade ago now. how did you come up with the idea for this school, and how did you start? how did you go about putting it in place? >> well, the harbor school is a maritime and environmental focus public high school. i was working after college, after vanderbilt for robert kennedy jr. at the river keeper and then afterwards at the water keeper alliance. my role is helping new water keepers start. i found all over the country people were invigorated about protecting their local waterways, patrolling their waterways. these were former commercial fishermen around the country. i fell in love with the hudson river. what i was trying to do is get people connected to their waterways and give them real career pathways in those environmental
as you see on this map here, that is just south of us here in manhatt manhattan. guys, great to see you. >> great to be here. >> full disclosure, murray is a very old friend of mine. nate is a good friend of mine as well. only a good friend would get up at this hour in the rain. murray, let's start with the idea you had, god, almost a decade ago now. how did you come up with the idea for this school, and how did you start? how did you go about putting it in place? >> well, the...
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having us all work together. when students graduate with real skills, they can continue their education, go straight into the workforce. those partnerships, we all have to move outside our comfort zones and work together. that partnership here in new york i think can be a model for the country. >> mr. secretary, we're going to move across the sun belt now. we're going to go to arizona state university in phoenix. where syleste is watching with students at the campus. >> reporter: they're responding well. there's about 70,000 students on the campus. 5,100 are majoring in education. we have amber reyes here. she's considering a degree in education. she's here as a freshman. what's your question for the secretary? >> hi, secretary duncan. you guys mentioned that many school districts are cutting teachers. and actually my sister and her husband, as well as many of their colleagues were actually pink slipped last year. in their low-income inner city school that they work at. so i was wondering what are you beliefs con
having us all work together. when students graduate with real skills, they can continue their education, go straight into the workforce. those partnerships, we all have to move outside our comfort zones and work together. that partnership here in new york i think can be a model for the country. >> mr. secretary, we're going to move across the sun belt now. we're going to go to arizona state university in phoenix. where syleste is watching with students at the campus. >> reporter:...
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some people call us frick and frack. we do finger painting. this is how grandpa and i roll. ♪ and i do [ pins fall ] grandma's my best friend. my best friend ever. my best friend ever. ♪ [ laughing ] [ boy laughs ] ♪ to know, know, know you after this we're gonna get ice cream. can we go get some ice cream? yeah. ♪ and i do ♪ and i do ♪ and i do that's why there's lubriderm® daily moisture. it contains the same nutrients naturally found in healthy skin. skin absorbs it better and...
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thank you for joining us. when we return let me finish with some thoughts about -- i think you're going to like what i have to say about public schools. we invented them in this country. now we have to fix them. [ advisor 1 ] what do you see yourself doing one week, one month, five years after you do retire? ♪ client comes in and they have a box. and inside that box is their financial life. people wake up and realize i better start doing something. we open up that box. we organize it. and we make decisions. we really are here to help you. they look back and think, "wow. i never thought i could do this." but we've actually done it. [ male announcer ] visit ameriprise.com and put a confident retirement more within reach. lord of the carry-on. sovereign of the security line. you never take an upgrade for granted. and you rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above. and still pay the mid-size price. i deserve this. [ male announce
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they won't work with us. it drives us really -- i mean, it's infuriating. >> congressman, do your constituents get that? i mean, do you run into any resistance at all from people who are saying, gosh, the republicans have really got the good ideas? do you hear that at all out there? >> all i heard this weekend when i got home to seattle was laughter. they said, did you see what those guys said? then on sunday they got up there with a straight face and said it again. sort of like what groucho mark said, the first thing you do when you go into politics, got to be able to keep a straight safe. they have that down. they can make you believe they have a solution, but there's no evidence anywhere of any solution. >> well, if this tax cut goes through, it would add $4 trillion to the debt of this country. and yet, they offered $16 billion to offset that. how could the democrats not just take that and go to the barn big-time and hammer them on the fact that they're screaming about fiscal responsibility, yet they want
they won't work with us. it drives us really -- i mean, it's infuriating. >> congressman, do your constituents get that? i mean, do you run into any resistance at all from people who are saying, gosh, the republicans have really got the good ideas? do you hear that at all out there? >> all i heard this weekend when i got home to seattle was laughter. they said, did you see what those guys said? then on sunday they got up there with a straight face and said it again. sort of like...
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joining us now. >> misplaced confidence. >>> blair taylor is with us. one of the things that urban league is involved with and something we haven't talked about as much during this conversation is parental involvement. >> right. >> and how important that is and howdy that can be in certain areas, especially urban areas. >> very much of a challenge, but critical. we have to start looking at education solutions from the bottom up versus the top down which means involving the community, involving parents, making sure teachers and students are involved in the solutions that we design. so traditionally what we've had is top-down management from a school district that would either at a local level, local school district or citywide school district that would be naming the mandates, outlining what curriculum is, planning for budget. what we're seeing now that is most effective is when you turn some of that back over to the school and let them make local decisions on curriculum or budget expenditures involving the students and teachers, you get a much better de
joining us now. >> misplaced confidence. >>> blair taylor is with us. one of the things that urban league is involved with and something we haven't talked about as much during this conversation is parental involvement. >> right. >> and how important that is and howdy that can be in certain areas, especially urban areas. >> very much of a challenge, but critical. we have to start looking at education solutions from the bottom up versus the top down which means...